Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army General Maxwell Taylor, 57, completing a four-year tour, as Chief of Staff, will retire. Best bet to replace Taylor: General Lyman Lemnitzer, 59, Vice Chief of Staff, like Taylor a paratrooper and holder of a lustrous field record in World War II and Korea, trusted friend of Dwight Eisenhower since serving as Ike's assistant chief of staff for the North African campaign...
Navy Admiral Arleigh Burke, 57, intends to retire after he winds up his second successful term as Chief of Naval Operations. Top candidates for his job: Vice Chief James Russell, 55, long on staff experience; Admiral Harry Felt, 56, Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific forces; Vice Admiral George Anderson, 52, who adds to heavy staff experience a friendship with the President dating from a tour of duty at Supreme Allied Headquarters in Europe...
...Paris last week a gaunt, leathery career officer acquired, almost unnoticed, more political power than any other soldier on active duty in the Western democracies. By governmental decree, General Paul Ely, 61, Chief of France's National Defense Staff, was given precedence over all French officials save President Charles de Gaulle and Premier Michel Debre. Hereafter, Ely, not the Minister of Defense, will be directly in charge of France's national security; if he chooses, in a time of crisis, Ely can even enter into international negotiations on his own authority...
...France had promised to support Massu's movement with an additional 4,000 paratroopers, 80 tanks and two battalions of colonial infantry. In all probability the attack would have met with no organized resistance. Unwilling to take responsibility for plunging France into civil war, General Ely resigned as Chief of Staff rather than issue an order calling upon units in France to oppose their brother soldiers from Algeria...
...Chief threat to such a happy ending, Ely emphasized, is Russian expansion in Asia and Africa-"for each new implantation of Communism helps it find again the purity of its younger days." Hence the prime task of the West is to keep Russia out of the underdeveloped nations by carrying out "a just and equitable distribution of Western wealth...